This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: net-appletalk-fix-kernel-memory-disclosure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017
From: Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:57:48 +0700 Subject: net/appletalk: Fix kernel memory disclosure
From: Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net
[ Upstream commit ce7e40c432ba84da104438f6799d460a4cad41bc ]
ipddp_route structs contain alignment padding so kernel heap memory is leaked when they are copied to user space in ipddp_ioctl(SIOCFINDIPDDPRT). Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to clear that memory.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c +++ b/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ipddp_xmit(struct sk_ */ static int ipddp_create(struct ipddp_route *new_rt) { - struct ipddp_route *rt = kmalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL); + struct ipddp_route *rt = kzalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL);
if (rt == NULL) return -ENOMEM;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vlad@tsyrklevich.net are
queue-4.9/net-appletalk-fix-kernel-memory-disclosure.patch